Dear sisters & brothers, ‘Stay at home’ is the best advice in the current circumstances with Covid rapidly spreading. St Aidan’s will open this weekend for those who turn up but will close from Monday 11th January for the time being. The third ‘lockdown’ in England began on Wednesday 6th...
Senior council figures have today issued an urgent warning to all residents to beware a new, covid-linked phishing scam which insidiously targets the elderly and vulnerable in an attempt to steal money from their bank accounts. The scam sends a text message to a person’s phone, saying that they need...
The Parish Pastoral Council held its fifth Zoom meeting during lockdown on 24th August; we began as usual with an opening prayer. We reviewed the arrangements for Mass after several weekends with the church open. In general things are going well. We operate a first come first admitted policy and...
If you are thinking of attending Mass this weekend we would like to give you a quick reminder of the arrangements. All weekend Masses are back to the usual times and will be live streamed. Before you leave home Either: bring with you a piece of paper with your name,...
If you are thinking of attending Mass this weekend we would like to give you a quick reminder of the arrangements. All weekend Masses are back to the usual times and will be live streamed. Before you leave home Either: bring with you a piece of paper with your name,...
Families can join CAFOD online at 10am GMT on Sunday for a virtual children’s liturgy of the word. Register now to take part: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5095942131288155403
The document below is an Extract of Income and Expenditure for the year ended 31st December 2019 and is distributed with the newsletter. We are grateful to the finance committee for all their hard work and they will be speaking after masses this weekend.
The PPC are delighted by the response asking for new nominations to join or rejoin the council and would like to thank the five parishioners who have stepped forward to seek nomination. The Parish Priest and Chair in consultation with the existing PPC members are in agreement that in accordance...
We are delighted to announce that following the appeal last weekend Danni Vicente-Machado has offered to take the lead by becoming the coordinator of our Parish Fete 2020 ! Danni’s professional background is in organising events. Thank you to her and thanks also to the people who offered to help...
This initiative has come about through discussions with Varia Doletskaya and her husband Alex Pidgen. They work as professional musicians and choir leaders. Varia is known to us at St Aidan’s as she is our organist for 9am Mass on Sundays. This would not be a church choir as such...
